The FlashCanon

Now let me fill in the middle of that quote:
“Like it or hate it, Flash — the leading technology for animating Web sites, making them quirky and fun, or distracting and slow to load — is increasing in popularity.”

That is how Dan Richman decided was the best way to start his article entitled “Online media tool not a Flash in pan” on seattlepi.com. Dan’s article is about FlashForward 2006 and “the largest crowd to attend the show since 2001.”

Now, let me point back to my last post when I quote Mr. Richman again as saying, “making them quirky and fun, or distracting and slow to load.” These are the people I’m talking about having the wrong perception of Flash. And this one is a journalist. Someone who has the power to add to the common, everyday Internet user’s perception. After I finish writing this post, I plan on sending Mr. Richman an email to try and inform him of his all-too-common misconception of Flash.

I do realize that Mr. Richman is pointing out that Flash is growing, but to start the article with “making them quirky and fun, or distracting and slow to load” just kicked me back to what I was saying before. Let me point out that this is not by any means a personal attack on you, Mr. Richman, but if you happen to follow the link to this post in my email, please do some research on Flash, ActionScript, Flex and how they go hand-in-hand with the term “Rich Internet Application.” By the way, I’m glad to see that after being around for 10 years, Flash is “not a Flash in pan.”

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